And the award for most contrived, unrealistic, and preachy television drama goes to... I’ve always thought that the best way to ruin a book’s audience is to make a movie out of it. Once the movie is made (and if it is successful), no one wants to read the book anymore. I'm thinking Lord of … Continue reading A Handmaid’s Tale: Now in Feminist Imaginations Everywhere
As with most presidential elections, South Korean voters predominantly voted their pocketbooks in Tuesday’s national election. While the election featured the usual struggle between a conservative market-based growth strategy and liberal redistributionism, voters this time were driven in large part by a desire to end their nation’s endemic political corruption. After 10 years of conservative … Continue reading Liberal Moon Jae-in Has Won the South Korean Election. Here’s What It Means for US, North Korea.
Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, the use of fetal tissue, genetic screening, birth control and sterilization, health-care rationing and the ethics of medical research on animals and humans. These subjects are major challenges in both ethics and economics at the end of the twentieth century. But at the beginning … Continue reading National Health Care: Medicine in Germany, 1918-1945
If you fill the bucket with water, the mice drown and you can just dump them. - Donny If you’ve ever had a rodent infestation, you know how clever those little guys can be. There’s a reason why humanity has struggled to eradicate these creatures for centuries, while never achieving any long-term success. If they … Continue reading VIDEO: Here’s how to kill a ton of mice with a five gallon bucket
I have my own compost box. That thing absolutely devours everything I put in it. Composting, the process of taking raw organic material like kitchen scraps, lawn trimmings, dead leaves, and chipped woody material and turning it into a useable, stable, non-offensive soil amendment can be done in any living situation. By composting our green … Continue reading DIY Vermicomposting: The Most Efficient Way of Using Organic Material
The so-called war on drugs – actually a war on certain people associated in various ways with certain drugs – has served since the Nixon administration as a major profit center for governments at every level. Owing to the ostensible efforts to suppress the possession, use, and commerce in these drugs, governments have been able … Continue reading States Are the Becoming the Biggest Drug Lords of All
Bear with me for a moment, because what I’m about to say will be grim at first, but I assure you that it has a strange and perhaps hilarious payoff. I want you to imagine for moment, what your life might be like after a nuclear war. Put yourself in the place of someone who … Continue reading In the event of nuclear war the IRS plans to do this
Forbes recently ran an interesting article that analyzed college degree programs and underemployment. The article was based on a survey released by PayScale, which collected data from nearly one million workers between March 2014 and March 2016. Here are the 12 majors that reported the highest rates of underemployment (a situation in which someone is … Continue reading College Majors that Report the Highest Underemployment
By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI was reeling after President Donald Trump unexpectedly fired its director James Comey, with agency staff scheduling an emergency high-level meeting for Tuesday night amid speculation about who would replace Comey in the top job. An FBI official, who was not authorized to speak to reporters and … Continue reading FBI in turmoil over Comey firing, scramble on for new chief
.. President Donald Trump has promised to make a “big decision” in the next two weeks on the Paris climate accord after promising to “cancel” the agreement during the campaign last year. Fundamentally, the Paris Agreement is a costly and ineffective approach to addressing global warming. There are compelling economic, environmental, and legal reasons for … Continue reading Time for Trump to Fulfill Promise and Withdraw From Paris Climate Agreement
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